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SleafordMod@feddit.uk 4 days ago
For me the most important reason to upgrade things is security updates. E.g. if you have an old smartphone it might not get security updates anymore.
Some people don’t seem to care, but I get paranoid about hackers breaking into my phone in some way.
ICastFist@programming.dev 4 days ago
Phones suffer a lot from forced obsolescence. More often than not, the hardware is fine, but the OEM abandons it because “lol fuck you, buy new shit”. Anyone that says that a Samsung S7 “can’t handle current apps” is out of their mind
Other than camera and software, there’s hardly any reason to buy new phones over flagships from some years ago.
raker@lemmy.world 4 days ago
This. My mobile is over 6 years old. Security updates till 2022, but I don’t even mind sec updates. What concerns me more is buy-a-new-phone-every-year-because-reasons, because buy new shit and spybloatware. Skynet is the virus. My old one runs perfectly fine and I buy a new one if it is broken. Even critical apps like banking doing fine. It’s not like the whole architecture of the OS changes yearly, right?
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
Ugh, my banking app doesn’t work on my phone any more because it’s “old”. It came out in 2017.
SleafordMod@feddit.uk 3 days ago
True. For my next phone I’m looking at how long security updates are promised for, so I can get something with long-term support.